GRi in Court Ghana 04 - 10 - 2000
Court issues
arrest warrant for watchman for forgery
Court issues arrest warrant for watchman for
forgery
Wa (Upper West Region) 4 October 2000
The Wa Circuit Court has issued a bench warrant
for the arrest of Mumuni Abdulai Gambo, a labourer of the Controller and
Accountant-General's Department for failing to appear in court to face charges
of forgery.
Gambo, 40, is said to have spearheaded a
conspiracy to forge documents, which led to the withdrawal of 69,121 cedis as
pension for a ''ghost pensioner''.
Two other employees of the department, Pascal
Tiirow, 45, Accounts Clerk and Photographer and an Assistant Chief Accounts
Officer, Dakurah Brono Godfrey, 52, who are jointly charged with Gambo, have
pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit forgery and forgery. They are on one
a million-cedi bail each to appear again on October 13.
Police Inspector Stephen Dobora told the court
presided over by Mr. Bigbson Adzagli that on July 4, this year, a farmer, Mark
Zongnea, presented a Ghana Government pensioner's identity card number 199651
in the name of Joseph Salifu to the department to collect his pension.
Details on the identity cared indicated that
Salifu had retired from the department of Social Welfare as a warden in 1999
and placed on a monthly pension of 69,121.
Inspector Dobora said the accused persons
conspired and forged the documents, which enabled the farmer to collect the
previous month's pension for a fee of 8,000 cedis.
However, in July Zongnea, who is a prosecution
witness in the case, ran out of luck as he was caught when he attempted to use
the fake documents to collect the money.
He mentioned the accused as the ones who
prepared the documents for him.
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